Even as they struggle amid the slowing economy, some states are giving retailers back about $1 billion in sales taxes each year as reimbursement for acting as tax...

Finland’s government said it will hike the tax on alcohol by 10 percent next year in an attempt to discourage heavy drinking.

An American customer of UBS AG will ask a Swiss court to stop his account details from being handed over to U.S. authorities probing alleged tax evasion, his lawyer...

Millionaire tax scofflaw Walter Anderson may have to pay more than $200 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service, federal appellate judges said Friday.

A federal judge in Miami has rejected requests to delay the tax evasion trial of race car driver Helio Castroneves (EHL’-ee-oh kas-troh-NEH’-vehz).

Race car driver Helio Castroneves’ attorneys and employer asked a judge to delay his March trial on tax evasion charges until next November so he can continue...

A senior executive with Swiss banking giant UBS AG was charged in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday with conspiring to hide $20 billion in assets from the...

A senior executive with Swiss banking giant UBS AG has been indicted on charges of conspiring to hide some $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service.

Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero is being investigated on suspicion of tax evasion, Italian authorities said Tuesday.

Race car driver Helio Castroneves will stand trial in March in Miami federal court on tax evasion charges.

Some of the nation’s biggest banks are in for a windfall _ on top of the $700 billion government bailout _ thanks to a new tax policy quietly issued by the...

German prosecutors have confirmed media reports that they have charged the former CEO of Deutsche Post, Klaus Zumwinkel, in a tax invasion investigation.

The former chief executive officer of Germany’s Deutsche Post has been charged with tax evasion, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Despite devastating wildfires that ravaged San Diego County twice in the last five years, voters there rejected a landowner’s tax ballot measure that would have...

Massachusetts voters have rejected a call to eliminate the state’s income tax.

The New Hampshire home where a tax-evading couple staved off arrest for nine months was defended by concrete walls, homemade bombs, 60,000 rounds of ammunition and the...

A man was sentenced to 36 years in prison Tuesday for helping a tax-evading couple build up a weapons arsenal and prolong a standoff with U.S. Marshals at their New...

A federal judge has permanently barred convicted tax rebel and author Irwin Schiff and a co-defendant from preparing tax returns and marketing products advising people...

Helio Castroneves can leave the country for an IndyCar event this month in Australia after a federal judge agreed Friday to modify bail conditions on tax charges the...

Getting people to pay the taxes they owe could be one significant way of coping with dizzying increases in the federal deficit and the potential $700 billion pricetag...